[0] Club Acclaim Ships Bust-A-Move 4 And Spreads Puzzle-Fever To Stores Today; Popular Puzzle Series Makes First Appearance On a Next Generation System.Business/Entertainment Editors & Video Game Writers GLEN COVE Glen Cove, city (1990 pop. 24,149), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on the north shore of Long Island, at the entrance to Hempstead Harbor; settled 1668, inc. as a city 1918. , N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2000 Club Acclaim, a division of Acclaim Entertainment, a worldwide interactive entertainment company, today announced that Bust-A-Move 4(TM) for Sega Dreamcast(TM) will ship to national retail stores today. Developed by Taito(R), Bust-A-Move 4(TM) marks the premier appearance of Club Acclaim's well-established Bust-A-Move franchise on Sega Dreamcast and will be priced to sell at a suggested retail price of under $30. "The addictive gameplay of Bust-A-Move has made it one of Acclaim's most popular franchises," said Christina Recchio, Marketing Manager, Club Acclaim. "This game has large appeal to both the casual gamer Casual gamer is a term used to describe a type of video game player whose time or interest in playing games is limited compared with a hardcore gamer. They can be found playing games across all genres and of varying levels of complexity and difficulty. and the long time game enthusiast." Bust-A-Move 4(TM) features thousands of all-new puzzles with new bubbles and obstructive blocks, using high-resolution graphics that showcase the Sega Dreamcast system. Players will experience hours of competitive multi-player gameplay from exciting game modes including: Puzzle, CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , Head-to-Head, Challenge and Collection which offers hundreds of bubble bursting puzzles. Bust-A-Move 4(TM)'s Edit Mode An operational state in a program that allows existing data to be changed. allows players to create their own mind-popping puzzles and save them to a memory card. Club Acclaim Established in 1999, Club Acclaim, a division of Acclaim Entertainment, focuses on licensed youth and family oriented product. Club Acclaim establishes a presence for Acclaim in the emerging youth software market and complements Acclaim's corporate portfolio. Additional titles published under the Club Acclaim brand include The New Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley(TM) and Mary-Kate & Ashley Get A Clue. Acclaim Entertainment Background Information Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. is a worldwide developer, publisher and mass marketer of software for use with interactive entertainment platforms including Nintendo, Sony Computer Entertainment America and Sega hardware systems, and PCs. Acclaim owns and operates six studios located in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and the United Kingdom, and publishes and distributes its software directly in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain and Australia. Acclaim also distributes entertainment software for other publishers worldwide, and publishes comic books and software strategy guides. Acclaim's headquarters are in Glen Cove, New York Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 26,622. Part of the early 20th century Gold Coast of the North Shore, Glen Cove has a diverse population. and Acclaim's common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on under the symbol AKLM AKLM Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (stock symbol) . For more information please visit our website at www.acclaim.com. |
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